. The drug plants of Illinois . VITIS, cultivated species. Grape. Vi- taceae. The fruit collected. Grown in vine- yards in some parts of the state and in gardens in all parts. Yields grape juice, wine, brandy, and raisins. Grape juice is a nutritive and re- frigerant; wine and brandy are stimulants; raisins are a nutritive and mild laxative. ZANTHOXYLUM AMERIGANUM Mill. Prickly ash, toothache-tree, yel- low^ wood, pellitory bark. Rutaceae.— A moderate, hardly ever large, armed shrub 5 to 10 feet tall; bark slate-gray, pungent, bitter; stems and branches with a pair of spines at the base of eac
. The drug plants of Illinois . VITIS, cultivated species. Grape. Vi- taceae. The fruit collected. Grown in vine- yards in some parts of the state and in gardens in all parts. Yields grape juice, wine, brandy, and raisins. Grape juice is a nutritive and re- frigerant; wine and brandy are stimulants; raisins are a nutritive and mild laxative. ZANTHOXYLUM AMERIGANUM Mill. Prickly ash, toothache-tree, yel- low^ wood, pellitory bark. Rutaceae.— A moderate, hardly ever large, armed shrub 5 to 10 feet tall; bark slate-gray, pungent, bitter; stems and branches with a pair of spines at the base of each leaf; leaves pinnately compound, 3 to 8 inches long, alternate; leaflets 5 to 11 in num- ber, ovate, 1 to 2Y2 inches long; flowers greenish-white, small, inconspicuous; fruit a reddish, globose to elliptic, aromatic cap- sule containing 1 seed. The berries (capsules) collected when ripe, and the bark of the stems. Frequent to common in low woods through the northern half of the state, infrequent southward. Contains fixed and volatile oils, resin, gum, coloring matter, and the alkaloid berberine. Used as a stimulant and diaphoretic, also as a simple bitter.
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